Enhancing Identity Observability for Secure Vault Management and NHIs
Enterprise Security Platform Enhances Identity Observability for Vault and Secret Protection
The growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation has increased the attack surface surrounding vaults, secrets managers, and non-human identities (NHIs). In response, AuthMind has expanded its platform to provide enhanced identity observability, enabling organizations to secure these critical assets.
Vaults and Secrets Managers
Vaults and secrets managers are designed to store credentials securely, but they often fail to detect misuse once secrets are retrieved. This lack of visibility creates blind spots that attackers can exploit to operate through legitimate access paths. AuthMind’s extended observability capabilities address these vulnerabilities by detecting shadow or unmanaged vaults and secrets managers, identifying anomalous authentication paths, and flagging overly permissive roles that retrieve excessive secrets.
Comprehensive View of Identity-to-Secret Attack Surface
The platform also monitors how secrets are used or misused once retrieved, providing organizations with a comprehensive view of their identity-to-secret attack surface. This is particularly important as NHIs and AI agents proliferate, creating new opportunities for attackers to exploit legitimate access paths.
According to Shlomi Yanai, CEO of AuthMind, “As AI agents and NHIs accelerate, secrets and vaults have become critical identity control points. By addressing the vulnerabilities they create, our extended observability ensures that vault access and secret usage are used as intended.”
Empowering Organizations to Detect and Remediate Identity-Driven Threats
AuthMind’s platform empowers organizations to proactively detect and remediate identity-driven threats across AI, non-human, and human identities. By securing identity access paths, the platform ensures that secrets and workloads are used only in the right context, by the intended identities, at the right time.
Consequences of Failing to Secure Vaults and Secrets
The consequences of failing to secure vaults and secrets can be severe. A misused NHI can lead directly to secret exposure, enabling lateral movement across systems. By extending its identity observability capabilities, AuthMind provides organizations with a critical layer of defense against these types of threats.
Enhanced Platform Capabilities
- Detection of shadow or unmanaged vaults and secrets managers
- Identification of anomalous or unauthorized authentication paths into vaults
- Flagging of overly permissive roles retrieving excessive secrets
- Monitoring of vault, PAM, or key management bypass scenarios
- Tracking of secret usage and misuse once retrieved
By providing this level of visibility and control, AuthMind enables organizations to secure their most critical assets and prevent identity-driven threats.
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